The way life manages information involves a logical structure that differs fundamentally from mere complex chemistry. Therefore chemistry alone will not explain life's origin any more than a study of silicon copper and plastic will explain how a computer can execute a program.

My early childhood prepared me to be a social psychologist. I grew up in a South Bronx ghetto in a very poor family. From Sicilian origin I was the first person in my family to complete high school let alone go to college.

Very few people are original. There's very little original anything out there. Because to be original means you have to stand alone.

U2 is an original species... there are colours and feelings and emotional terrain that we occupy that is ours and ours alone.

Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time his day his age.